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Fire Prevention Week

Serve Up Fire Safety in the Kitchen!

Fire Prevention Week 2020: October 4-10

The Mississippi Mills Fire Department is urging everyone in Mississippi Mills to take some simple steps to prevent kitchen fires in their home. This year’s theme of Fire Prevention Week, which runs from October 4-10, is “Serve Up Fire Safety in the Kitchen!™”

The theme is very timely as cooking fires continue to be the leading cause of home fires in Ontario. It focuses on the prevention of cooking fires and staying fire...

2021 Budget - Balancing the Budget

Each year Council debates and discusses the budget during a series of meetings in order to balance the budget and determine what they feel is an acceptable level of taxation and amount for user fees.  Municipalities can’t have budgets that don’t balance as set out in the Municipal Act, so all revenues and expenses must be equal. The first DRAFT of the budget was presented to Council at the October 6th meeting and is currently not balanced so Council and Staff have a significant amount of work to...

October 6 - Council Meeting

A Council meeting will be held on Tuesday October 6, 2020 at 4:00 pm with Committee of the Whole following immediately after .

To access the agendas please visit: https://events.mississippimills.ca/council and click on the meeting date in the calendar.

Due to space restrictions and social distancing requirements, Council Chambers are still closed to the public but meetings will be livestreamed on the municipal website. To access the livestream please click on the link above.

Mandatory Face Covering/Mask Instruction Continues

Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit Media Release

October 1, 2020

On July 6, 2020 Medical Officers of Health from Eastern Ontario Health Unit; Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit; Renfrew County and District Health and Ottawa Public Health announced a regional approach to the use of face coverings/masks in enclosed public places within their respective jurisdictions. An Instruction was issued in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark under the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response...

Notice of Public Hearing - Minor Variance Application

TAKE NOTICE that a Public Meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 at 5:30 p.m., in the Municipality of Mississippi Mills to consider a proposed Minor Variance under Section 45 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, Chapter P.13.  The Minor Variance application concerns the property, which is known as Part Lot 15, Anderson Section, Plan 6262, Almonte Ward, Municipality of Mississippi Mills, municipally known as 83-85 Elgin Street.

The applicant is requesting relief from the lot area, front...

More Pop-Up Testing in Lanark County this Week

Building on the success of local pop-up testing last week, paramedics from the Lanark County Paramedic Service will once again be performing  COVID-19 testing at pop-up (temporary) testing centres in Carleton Place on Wednesday, September 30, and in Perth on Friday, October 2. The pop-up testing centre in Carleton Place will be located at the Carmabeck Community Centre at 351 Bridge Street, and the pop-up testing centre in Perth will be located at Conlon Farm Recreation Complex at 127 Smith Drive...

CRIMINAL RECORD CHECKS NOW ONLINE

 (Perth, ON) – With the start of school and people returning to work, the Lanark County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with other detachments province-wide, have been inundated with requests for criminal record checks. 

 In the past, if you required a criminal record check to be done you attended the local detachment, dropped off paperwork and returned on a later date to pick-up the completed form. 

 Everything changed, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  In order to keep...